Improvement in machinery for submitting yarns to the action of liquid



N. PETERS, FNDTOALITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON, Dv C4 UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICE.

PAUL HEILMANN, OF MULHOUSE TOTVN, FRANCE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY FOR SUBMITTING YARNS TO THE ACTION 0F LIQUID.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,494, dated February 25, 1862.

T0 @ZZ whom t may concern: v

Be it known that I, PAUL HEILMANN, gentleman, of Mulhouse Town, in the French Empire, have invented Improved Apparatus for Submitting Yarns and Threads to the Action of Liquid and Gaseous Bodies; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of my said invention.

The lobject of this invention is to submit lengths of yarn or thread while in motion to the action of liquid or gaseous bodies for the purpose of sizing, mordanting, dyeing, or drying the Same and preparing them for spinning or weaving. This is effected by drawing the yarn or thread off cops or bobbins and winding the same around drums or reels in the form of a helix or one coil of thread beside the other (a space being left between each coil) and giving the drums or reels a continuous rotatory motion either in the air orimmersed in a bath, whereby the yarn or thread will be exposed to the action of the fluid (whether gaseous or not) in which it is rotating. While thus rotating the reels will deliver out of the machine or apparatus as much thread atone end of the helix as they take up at the other end. By this arrangement any length of thread can be operated upon and in the case of dyeing or drying submitted to the action of the operating agents sufficiently long to insure the perfect action of the dyeing or drying agents. The agents employed in connection with the improved machinery may be air, either heated or not, if the object be to dry the yarn or thread; baths of mordants or dye-stuffs, if the object be to dye them; size or glue, if the object be to stiffen them, or any other agent or agents proper to obtain the desired effect, or a combination of them.

This invention is specially applicable to the winding or drawing off from the cocoons of raw silk, which by this means Will be delivered out of the machine or apparatus in a dry state and can be immediately wound onto .bobbins As an illustration of the use of this invention I have shown in the accompanying drawings an arrangement of machinery adapted for carrying out the operation of sizing and drying yarn simultaneously, the obj ect being to give tenacity to the yarn by causing an adhesion of the fibers. In this machine the sizing is effected on the passage of the yarn to the reels.

In Sheet I Figureb l is an end elevation of the improved reeling-machine; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section, the middle part being broken away to contract the length of the figure. Fig. 3 is a detached View showing the sizing apparatus in vertical cross-section. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the reeling-machine, the sizing apparatus being removed; and Fig. 5 is an elevation of the opposite end of the machine to that shown at Fig. l.

The machine consists, mainly, of two reels set one Within the other and mounted, the one loosely and the other as a fixture, on the same shaft, but eccentrically with respect to each other.

A is the reel-shaft carried in bracket-bearings attached to the main frame. The reels are each composed of a pair of wheels B B C C, the former of which are keyed to the shaft A, while the latter are mounted loosely on eccentric-bosses c', loose on the shaft A, but held stationary by being clipped at their extremities by bracket-pieces c2, attached to the main framing. On the peripheries of the wheels B B C Cmetal laths b b c care affixed by means of screws. The laths b b are slotted to receive the attaching-screws, and they are thus allowed to receive la slight endwise motion as the compound reels rotate in order to shog or shift the coils of yarn or thread upon the reels in a lateral direction or parallel with their axes, and thereby make room for fresh yarn or thread to be wound thereon. The eccentricity of the reels is intended to facilitate this shogging movement, the laths b b of the reel B being caused by such eccentricity first to lift the several coils of yarn or thread from the reel C, as illustrated at the top of Figs. l and, 5, preparatory to their movement endwise in one direction, and afterward to transfer it back to the reel C, as illustrated at the bottom of said figures, at a distance in a lateral direction from Where they took it, every coil being shogged or shifted at every point where it rests on a lath as that lath arrives at a given point in its revolution, so that the whole of the yarn or thread is shifted bodily on the reel C. The movement endwise of the laths b b to produce the lateral movement of the coils of threads is effected durculation of air between vand around the coiled vrock-lever M in the usual manner of laying;

ing the rotation of the :reels by the ends of` the said laths being severally brought in succession into contact with a fixed adjustable guide D, carried by a bracket-arm d, at the, upper part of the main framing, (see Fig. 2,) and the return motion is produced by their opposite ends being in succession pressed against a xed guide E, attached to thelower part of the end framing. The wheels B C at each end of the reels are connected together by eccentric coupling-pins 'a d, which pass through holes made in the arms of the Wheels and work freely therein to allow for the eecentric axial motion of the coupled Wheels..` Rotary motion is given to the reelsby a spur- Wheel F, keyed on the axle of the reel-shaft A and gearing into a pinion on the boss of. an intermediate wheel G, which receives motion from a spur-pinion on the main drivingshaft. Within the reels a set of four fans is mounted for the purpose of producing a cirthreads. These fans consist of leaves of wood or Isheet metal I, mounted on rotating shafts t' i, which are supported in socket-bearings in j a ring cast on the .wheels C C. The fans will therefore rotate with the reels; butin orderi to 'give the fans an axial motion `their shafts 'L' c are provided `with pulleys ix 71X, over which 1 pass bands la from'a pulley Z loose on thejv shaft A. Aband m from the pulley Z passes to a pulley n, mounted on a stud-axle aty the lower part of the 'main framing, and f attached to this pulley a is a spurpinionv ax, which gears into the intermediate wheelj G, before mentioned, which itself receives f motion from the main driving-shaft I-l. It will now be vunderstood that on motion be-1 ing given to this shaft H through its drivingpulley h the reels and the fans within them j will be ,caused to rotate, and the yarn to vbe C dried being guided onto the reels by means"Y of guides set at suitable distances apart the, several lengths of yarn will be wound onto the reels until a sufficient accumulation has been effected thereon. The precise amountf of yarn to be thusaccumulated will be deter mined by the lengthof time necessary to submit 'it to the `currents of air. W'hen thisacy` cumulation has been once attained, the ends 1 of the lirst coils are to be led to rotating bob- L bins p by means of traveling guides or eyes 19X., which have an up-and-down motion comrmunicated to them by a rotating cam L and threads on bobbins. The delivery of the yarn A onto the bobbins will then be continuous,`the f yarn taken up being pushed forward laterally `flutedl and rotates in a size or gumming trough s. The soft yarn in passing between these rollers q becomes saturated with `a gumm'ing solution, andin this state it is passed over a guide-roller t to the reeling apparatus,

onto which it is lapped, as before explained. This reeling apparatus while transmitting the 'lengths of Lyarn to the bobbinsp subjects it to currents of air set in motion by the rotating fans, and thus the lengths of yarn are dried before being delivered out of the .-maf v chine and may .Without further preparation be used in the loom.

Vhen Ayarn or thread is to be submitted -to the mordantingor dyeing process, the `sizing or gumming apparatus is not employed g :but in lieu thereof the reels are caused to rotate in a mordanting or dye bath, and thus e`xpose the yarn or thread for a suitable period v (determined by the length of yarn or thread allowed to accumulate on the reels, as before explained with respect 'to drying` the sized yarn) to the action of the bath.

In the application 0f my inventionlto the.

process of dyeing or mordanting, as .above mentioned, the fans within the reelsare dispensed with and the yarn dried by `meanslof fans or other drying apparatus St1,itablyary ranged outside of the bath.

Having now set forth `the nature of `my iinvention and explained the manner-of .carrying the same into effect,l wish it to beunderstood that I cla-im- 1 Submitting yarns `or threads to the action of gaseous and liquid bodies, for the several purposes above described, by means of a system of reels operating substantially as herein set forth. v

In witness whereof I, the said PAUL `HEIL- MANN, have hereunto set my hand .and seal this 31st day of October, in the year of 4our Lord 1860. i

. PAUL IIEILMANN [L. s] W'itnesses:

AD. PICARD, ED. FRAUGER. 

